Winner 2nd poetry contest – Earl Longwood

RE:Definition and ((blackstereo)) congratulate Earl Longwood with winning the Gil Scott-Heron poetry contest! On Sunday May 27 he’ll perform his poem in front of a 16 piece Can I Kick It-orchestra during this year’s edition of Dunya. Mr. Longwood also participated in the first contest and he’ll perform at the next RE:Defition (Sunday June 10, Paradiso). Click here to read his poem and find out what the judges/readers had to say about it.

Chubasco Goedhart is the runner up and he wins four free RE:Definition-tickets. Both poets will be featured on the RE:Definition x ((blackstereo)) Poetry Mixtape.

Sunday June 10 – RE:Definition at Paradiso

Poets: Hanifah Walidah (Brooklyn), Smita James, leslie ebony, Earl Longwood, Kid Kemuel and Unorthadox
Host: Shay
Music: DJ Threesixty

Location: Paradiso – upstairs room
Address: Weteringschans 6 1017 SG Amsterdam
Doors open: 15.30h / First poets grabs the mic at: 16.00h
Tickets: € 5 (membership included)

For more info about the poets, host, DJ and the ever so amazing Paradiso please click on their names/links. Click here to check out the Facebook event and to join our page.

—— New rule: new work only ——
Amsterdam almost has as much poetry events as it has poets. Which, of course, is all kinds of marvellous but when the same poets keep performing the same pieces on different stages it all becomes a bit ‘meh’ at times. Soooo… as of now RE:Definition has a ‘new work only!’-rule for all Holland based poets. Yes, our line up might feature a poet/writer/MC you’ve already seen at RE:Def or somewhere else but best believe they have prepared something new.

Mind the Gap & Nzingah Morena

Salutes to Effie Baert and the whole Mind the Gap-crew!! You had a great last edition of MTG and you will be missed.

Two shots in the air for Nzingah Morena (pic) for being the only contestant in today’s Mind the Gap poetry contest who didn’t only mention but actually wrote a brand new piece about the Dutch government being on the verge of collapsing. I’m not saying everybody has to write about politics but please understand the importance of producing new work and the impact that has on your relevance as a voice of the people.